A tropical hairstreak butterfly from Sapo National Park, Liberia, with extraordinarily long 'false antennae'/ tails.

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A tropical hairstreak butterfly from Sapo National Park, Liberia. They spin round at the moment before they land so that their false antennae are pointing upwards, and their real head is downwards - to confuse potential predators.

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Size: 5200px × 3454px
Location: Sapo National Park, Liberia, West Africa
Photo credit: © Evan Bowen-Jones / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: behaviour, biodiversity, bizarre, butterfly, defence, defense, fairy, false, fantastic, hairstreak, hypolycaena, insect, jungle, liberia, lycaenidae, mechanism, mimicry, national, park, rainforest, sapo, sp., strange, tail, theclinae, tropical